Philip Rucker

With Nov. 3 just nine days away and coronavirus cases surging in many states, the new White House outbreak spotlighted the administration’s failure to contain the pandemic.

The past seven days have dealt one setback after another for the incumbent, including his hospitalization for covid-19, which he has long downplayed and dismissed.

Top Republicans signal push to vote on new justice nominated by Trump, while Biden and other Democrats say the decision should be delayed until after Inauguration Day.

President Trump is speaking tonight, as well as Ivanka Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, UFC President Dana White, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.

Officials say the party gathering will counter the image of Joe Biden presented by Democrats last week.

A politics-first, science-second attitude has become pervasive inside the White House — championed first and foremost by the president — as the pandemic rages out of control.

A politics-first, science-second attitude has become pervasive inside the White House — championed first and foremost by the president — as the pandemic rages out of control.

While most developed countries have managed to control the covid-19 pandemic, the United States has seen 3.3 million people infected and more than 133,000 dead.

Both Democratic and Republican operatives increasingly view Trump as a drag on GOP candidates in many key Senate and House races — especially in suburban areas, where polling and focus group data suggest he has been bleeding support.

In less than 24 hours this week, Trump twice had the whistle blown on his moves to bust through the boundaries of law.

The admission of regret from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs capped nearly two weeks of public discomfort with and outright condemnation of Trump’s leadership amid nationwide protests of racial injustice from some of the nation’s most revered military figures.

Biden, the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee, accused Trump of ‘spiking the ball’ when millions are still unemployed or suffering.

After defensive commentary, Trump appeared chastened as he previewed a raft of emergency measures to shore up the economy.

The president vowed to make Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine a ‘major issue’ in the general election campaign should Joe Biden win the Democratic nomination.

Despite attacks by other candidates, many voters say they believe backing a billionaire may be the only way to ensure that Trump is defeated in November.

The president has sought to protect his friends and punish his foes, even at the risk of compromising the Justice Department’s independence and integrity.

Trump provided fresh evidence that he feels emboldened and will say and do as he pleases after the GOP-controlled Senate voted last week to acquit him in the impeachment trial.

Trump plans to present a vision of “relentless optimism” and bipartisanship, but the tone previewed by the White House has been belied by the president’s own messages of discord and disunity.

In an extraordinary letter, the president fires off insults, accusations and attacks, saying Democrats are “declaring open war on American democracy.”

Trump is taking a page out of the Clinton playbook. Then-President Bill Clinton survived his 1998 impeachment in part because the economy was roaring and because he appeared to many voters to be relentlessly focused on doing the business of the American people.